5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer C tier opener

GLUME

GLUME is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 91.7% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

A basal, membranous, outer sterile husk or bract in the flowers of grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae).

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How GLUME performs as a guess

Wordle accepts GLUME as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 79.2% of games, misses completely in 20.8%, and leaves about 196 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #4,325 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.66 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

G___E G in the 1st position and E in the 5th position G__M_ G in the 1st position and M in the 4th position _L__E L in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TRAIN STAIR ROAST SOLAR PETAL SNARY
Words starting with G Words ending with E

First-turn measures

4.65 Entropy (bits)
196 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
91.7% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 62% of evaluated openers
1.30 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How GLUME performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.66 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.69 Volatility
#4,325 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, GLUME ranks #4,325 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
64
3 guesses
896
4 guesses
1,185
5 guesses
195
6 guesses
13
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ELU

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
79%
Green tile
34%
All gray
21%

Feedback distribution

100 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

490
330
190
160
111
95
71
68
61
54
47
38
34
34
33
30
27
27
25
22
22
21
20
16
15
15
14
13
13
13

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing GLUME:

21% chance
Suggested:
TRAIN
14% chance
Suggested:
STAIR
8% chance
Suggested:
ROAST

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

20.8% →
TRAIN 6.10 bits
14.0% →
STAIR 5.21 bits
8.1% →
ROAST 5.16 bits
6.8% →
SOLAR 5.04 bits
4.7% →
PETAL 4.45 bits
4.0% →
SNARY 4.54 bits
3.0% →
COAST 4.97 bits
2.9% →
COAST 4.59 bits
2.6% →
SHART 4.61 bits
2.3% →
ROANY 4.76 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for GLUME; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

G2L1U1M3E1
Total: 8 points

Words With Friends

Total: 12 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.